As part of the agreement, the two Koreas marched together under a unified flag in the opening ceremony on Friday and formed a joint women's ice hockey team.

Mr Pence had toldSeoul in advance that he would be dining with USA athletes, "so his seat was not prepared accordingly", the spokesman continued.

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Prior to the opening ceremony on Friday night, Pence arrived late to a dinner reception between the two Koreas and greeted everyone at a main table except for Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's nominal head of state, Reutersreports.

The handwritten invitation to President Moon was delivered by Mr Kim's influential sister, Kim Yo-jong, at a landmark meeting in the presidential palace in Seoul, as the Games opened on Saturday.

Pence spoke at a memorial in Seoul that was prepared to remember 46 South Korean sailors after their ship was sunk in 2010.

"South Korea has some hard homework to solve regarding some countries", Mr Moon said before Mr Pence arrived. "The vice president will remind the world that anything the North Koreans do during the Olympics is a charade to disguise the reality of the oppression inside North Korea".

After what appeared to be a grueling climb to the top of the stairs, they handed the flame to Olympic gold and silver medal-winning figure skater Yuna Kim, who still stood well out of reach of the cauldron.

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Moon responded that he hopes that the right conditions will be created so that the proposed visit can take place. It's unclear whether the occasion could be used to set up bigger meetings between the Koreas to ease tensions.

The North and the United States were also holding a series of high-level talks on Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programmes. But North Korea's awful record on human rights and the growing threat from its nuclear weapons program appeared out of mind.

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